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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-04-27 20:09:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2005-04-27 20:09:50 +0000 |
| commit | d3ee0279d6f518f352585c417668d2810a00625c (patch) | |
| tree | 9d9926ae12c7c8ce9e33c9d4207f359d3928e876 | |
| parent | eceb05b0b9e619352ea2826bba0d4393afe2c8be (diff) | |
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Update PAM documentation, per Alvaro.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 3f2bdce20fa..12c443332e2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.77 2005/04/26 03:01:09 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.78 2005/04/27 20:09:50 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> @@ -883,8 +883,8 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 default PAM service name is <literal>postgresql</literal>. You can optionally supply your own service name after the <literal>pam</> key word in the file <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename>. - PAM is used only to validate username/password pairs. - The user must already exist in the database before PAM + PAM is used only to validate username/password pairs, + therefore the user must already exist in the database before PAM can be used for authentication. For more information about PAM, please read the <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/"> <productname>Linux-PAM</> Page</ulink> |